Bob Sullivan wrote:
Frank,
Can you clip the spring off and make it shorter?
I really think you want that back in there some day...
I have worked on many mechanisms over the years, and I'd like to make a
silly suggestion.
Sometimes you THINK you've lost the spring, but it's still in the hole!
Every time I don't understand how something could work withOUT the
spring, I take a little hooked probe and make SURE the old spring is not
still hiding inside it's little hole.
It has happened!
keith whaley
And yes, getting it back together takes 3 hands. :-)
Regards, Bob S.
On 7/3/05, Frank Wajer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
yesterday I fixed an A 50mm f1.4 lens with a sticky aperture. Now it works
fine again. Gee, the A pin took me 2 hours to get back in again. The
aperture click ball needs to be spring loaded. I lost the ball and spring in
an earlier attempt to fix the lens. I received a new ball and spring from
Pentax Netherlands, but the spring was way to long. I didn't see a way to
get it not jumping away before closing the lens. Also the ball seemed a bit
to large, it didn't fall into the hole where it should go. So I just put it
there without the spring, closed the lens and it works. I was worried that
the ball might go deeper into the hole thereby loosing the aperture click,
but it doesn't.
Great, now I'll start working on a K 85mm f1.8, that should be a lot easier
without the A pin.
BTW. I will never ever touch an A, F or FA zoom lens, that must be a
nightmare.
Frank
